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Let them eat cake.

Food prices have jumped this year and there are few jobs, but out-of-work migrants can’t get to where they are desperately needed.

5,000 people are taking part in the trials.

Bishkek is also angling for yet more room to ease its debt burden.

Trials for a domestically developed QazCovid-in vaccine are not expected to be completed until March.

But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment.

Any breakthrough in improving the lot of labor migrants will be touted as sign of his political heft.

The government is eager to stress that the loan is all but interest free.

Travel bans, dams and Russian fans. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The government will help outlets that publish its propaganda.

Numbers of coronavirus cases has seen a sharp surge recently.

Beijing does not appear disposed to give too much leeway.

The terminal state of the economy remains paramount in the minds of those wishing to leave.

5,000 volunteers have been mobilized for the phase-three trial.

The healthcare sector has been embroiled in corruption scandals for years.